Ideology of Peace
THE WAYS AND MEANS OF PEACE
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Whenever an individual or a group has any cause
for complaint, the solution lies not in retaliatory
activities, but rather in continuing to move forward
by adopting a policy of avoidance of conflict. Such
avoidance puts an end to the problem at the very
outset, while refusal to ignore the problem leads to
an unending chain reaction of hatred, revenge and
violence. Thus, the policy of avoidance of conflict is
the way of the peace-loving, while that of revenge is
the way of the violent.
Revenge is always directed against another but, in
actual fact, the greatest victim is the one who opts
for this course. The heavy price to be paid for this
revenge policy is that his mind becomes a
storehouse of negative thinking. Instead of
expending his resources on building his life, he
begins to squander them on the destruction of
others.
Say, an antagonist had caused him to use up fifty
percent of his energies, resources, etc., he would
himself, as a result of his policy of revenge, fritter
away the other 50%.
